CanberraBurning the flag would carry a year in prison.
The bill also locks 26 January as Australia Day into law, the date Indigenous Australians mark as invasion.
The Coalition adopted a One Nation demand it once resisted, a minor party’s platform becoming law without winning seats.
Labor calls the push “desperation” to chase One Nation voters ahead of the next election.
How each outlet framed it
- The Guardian
- connects Coalition's flag-criminalization to One Nation's platform while emphasizing recklessness requirement for speech protection
Sources: The Guardian